I know the whole 10,000 steps per day is an arbitrary number right?
I just got a walking pad for my office at work. So now instead of sitting an hour and just standing an hour I walk for that standing hour. I get 4 1hr walks per day Mon-Fri. I just got a step counter that says I’m getting about 18,000 steps in those 4hrs.
Is there any concern with that being too much? Especially my recent addition of jogging/running 35 min on Tuesday and 45 min on Saturdays?
Nope, this is great!
@Austin_Baraki thanks.
Follow up question. Would doing this many steps/day plus extending my Conditioning Day 2 on Body Building 1 Gen2 3-Day version from 20min to 50min make up for skipping the added 5th day in Block 2? The 4 day conditioning schedule separate from my 3 lifting days per week works best for me.
I think that’s reasonable, especially if it makes things more sustainable for you overall.
@Austin_Baraki @Jordan_Feigenbaum
Good Morning. Lately I have increased my daily steps from the 18,000 in the subject line to about 20,000-21,000/day Mon-Fri.
I was wondering if you would recommend reducing that number on my Day 3 BB1 Gen2 the lower body/leg day since I do these steps at work then do my lifting immediately after work.
I am wondering if it could be reducing my performance/progress in the gym.
I think that would be a reasonable modification, though I suspect you’d only notice a difference with a significant change of (just guessing) ~ 8-10k steps, vs reducing it by 2-3k steps. As far as how much performance to expect, I’m guessing something modest…maybe 5%? Whether that’s worth it to you or not is a bit of personal calculus re: goals.
Thanks. I was also wondering. I know Dr. B above said he was fine with my daily steps compensating instead of adding the 5th conditioning day in BB1 Gen2 3-day. But if I switched to the 4-day version could my 20-21,000 steps/day Mon-Fri compensate for any more of the conditioning days? I’m just trying to figure out how to fit it all in.
If I got to choose, I would not replace any of the formal conditioning with walking. I’d do the opposite, when possible. It’s not that walking is bad, but I do think “real” conditioning works better for health provided people are going to do the same amount.
Understood. Thanks! I was thinking I would probably just combine a couple days into one on Wednesday to help with the scheduling. So instead of doing two 20 minute days, I’ll do 40 minutes on Wednesday
Yep, that would work. While we’re musing…
One thing I wonder about is the effect of conditioning frequency when training volume is low, e.g. less than ~ 3 hours a week. Say that someone could do either three 1-hour sessions or ten 18-minute sessions. IF the assumption is that the longer sessions produce greater demand on the cardiorespiratory system at a given intensity, so the length of the session is doing the heavy lifting (pun intended), then perhaps it would be better at increasing cardiorespiratory fitness.
Admittedly, there’s not a lot of data here to really know…but I do wonder!